i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's fate the wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when he to pull every one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bet as a vodka northwestern russia crashed on this road missing the runway by a kilometer twenty four hours later the crash claimed another victim when one of the survivors a young boy died in hospital. when i heard the little boy in the hospital died i was shocked it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this airport many times it's very personal to me. the site of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the plane completely removed but there are still career marks evidence like this bird chorus that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the horrific scenes they say that those

memories are unlikely to go away. i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even fall asleep i can't recall and people screaming and pulling bodies away from the plane. you have guinea was one of the first that the scene his house only metres away from where the plane came down when. i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out i ran to the site and we started rescuing people here we're trying to a man two women and the pilot that he was dead the firemen arrived and we helped them the man we dragged away called his wife at home and he asked me to get his phone from his pocket he is still alive but still of the hospital. while all the bodies have been recovered the relatives of the victims still have the tough task of identifying their loved ones investigators say all possible scenarios are being looked into but initial reports suggest bad weather and pilot error are the likely causes of the crash

a suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals just. it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead i think the airport itself is to blame for family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now. he was only thirty eight. only thirty eight. is remember those they've lost. deaths are still your r t russia your region. reports suggest seven special forces officers have been killed and at least sixteen others wounded in an anti terror operation in russia's volatile north caucuses fierce fighting broke out when a group of militants who'd been surrounded in their hideout try to break free put skin off has got the latest for you. this operation is still continuing it's been going on for two days it's all happening in the troubled republic of big east down in the caucasus in

a forest area so perhaps the complicating the operation for the special forces is started with the authority surrounding a group of militants what would be try to break through and that's reportedly one of the police officers were killed going to reports there's intense fighting still and losses on both sides but the figures on that are quite different the authorities have also deployed havey old artillery including tanks and helicopters to assist them in this operation unfortunately the north caucasus is called the cradle of terrorism. and president needed to be the first been saying many times very it's one of the key goals of his administration to strengthen security in the caucasus authorities have been able to hold some successful operations in the region including the republic of dagestan just last week we found and destroyed an underground weapons factory with numerous small mean explosive devices with remote

controls also last week before a limited person will be in big will be have been searching for since last new year's eve was plotting terrorist attack in moscow all the new year's eve and although it just shows how important it is to strengthen security in that region because it really does affect security in the entire country you're watching r.t. from moscow coming up a firsthand account from the libyan from lied we hear from a journalist who was in the region of a few days ago but who says that all is not what it seek. to greece now where the prime minister's won a crucial parliamentary vote of confidence in his newly reshuffle government he must now though navigate the nation through a series of tough spending cuts and sales of national assets in order to secure a new e.u. bailout and avoid a default but as our sisera first reports for the millions of anxious greeks who feel their voices are going on heard their future has never looked so bleak. it's

considered by many to be the best place of democracy but increased now the whitening gap between the aims of the people and the government is preaching explained. we are a mix of people that have no political dollars and we are here all together to say that we cannot be on the vice president we are not called. the measures the canonical measures that they take for us without us and we want to take our lives bug demonstrations held in the central square now on a daily basis with some of the protests turning violent protests to say the suffocating take us nothing compared to the a stage the measures that they fail strangling their economy the people are being refused their right to judge what policies are going to be implemented upon them

and of course the greek government is an accomplice to this of popular sovereignty i mean we're not we're not any more in the proper sense a sovereign country when the i.m.f. can dictate policy with the european when peaceably and the european union and the i.m.f. the so-called troika can come and say listen these are these are the measures you're going to implement you are going to implement them whether you like it or not we can see in a way we're facing a very peculiar form of dictatorship by the european union the european central bank and the i.m.f. here a finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising suffering default and they're rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout the i think very chance of a domino effect. if. there are no answered the full this is their problem and reason why are europeans are helping greece but in fact we are here pingers because they don't want this domino effect and because they

want to take all very short of greece. sixteen percent of the quick what full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is a dream it seems is a. to get people worse off as were before. people got there were uprising or there would be a lot of violence in the streets the people said that when they're turning out into the streets and then millions and the government continues to push ahead with the prepays measures will then they deign to have democracy any more the government is trying to grumble but the people who refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous bizzare peaceful pay about the reef tops and nothing is really a world away from what's been happening on the streets recently the question a lot of people have been asking is just when will greece reach boiling point lenny

when he was on the streets of athens to witness the violence that is already past that point the question a lot of people are now asking is really how much further does this guy. say that. italy has called for immediate cease fire in libya to allow humanitarian aid to be part of the country now that appeal comes after the two admitted to a blunder which resulted in the deaths of civilians including children as a potent message to journalists michel caller who is in the country just a couple of days ago he told me nato is pursuing its own interests in the region. they have killed more civilians that the losses from the initials problems there feels more civilians than live to bombings so the real i.d.'s not protect civilians . he's to achieve the economical strategy kalid interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the usa is

a bankrupt country and also preventing that caffie who would be a sort of turn a thief to the i.m.f. some buying for african development the old idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is a cup of the world know that that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and war. also making the headlines tonight at least fifty seven al qaeda militants have escaped have managed to escape rose from a jail in yemen after insurgents attacked the prison from outside the targeted security guards and seize their weapons killing at least one officer the gel's believe the house more than one hundred al-qaeda members among those who broke out were prisoners convicted on terror charges months of unrest in yemen have led to fears of al qaeda is growing influence now syria's poured scorn on e.u.

moves to impose sanctions saying it will simply forget europe solve a map of violent crackdown against anti-government activists in the country as they have hundreds dead since the uprising began in march activists are calling for president bashar assad to step down meanwhile the u.n. security general ban ki moon has said the syrian president now lacks credibility for not bringing about promised reforms. and the tories chinese artists an anti government activist has been released on bail after confessing to tax evasion. was detained in airport in beijing in april his arrest sparked a global campaign for his release spoken critique of china's human rights record he's perhaps best known for helping to design the country's famous bird's nest the lympics stadium. the former dior design john galliano has gone on trial in paris over accusations of hurling anti-semitic insults and racist remarks at a couple in a drunken outburst last february the british designer was fired from his high

profile position at the french fashion house after a video surfaced online instance left early on his glittering career in tatters despite apologizing for his remarks if found guilty he could face up to six months in prison. the countries of the former soviet union are marking the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion the claimed the lives of some twenty seven million people solemn ceremonies have been held across several states which bore the brunt of the war against hitler's armies here in moscow russia's political elite laid wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier by the kremlin wall president medvedev stressed the importance of keeping the memory of the war alive making sure it doesn't fade with time i did better or worse especially when he was held at the breast fortress which witnessed the first major battle between soviet and nazi forces from where it is a country to grow children reports that. being here inside the prettiest fortress on these days seventy years after the start of the great passion of war makes you

not only see the visual damage to this city. the forefront of that war you can also fill the human coast of those terrible times dance from the walls of the fortress maybe you cannot see clearly behind that smoke is a living reminder about that the roches night thousands of people were buried alive on these four square kilometers on the night of the twenty second of june nineteenth forty one here also love to behind several inscriptions like the one on a wall i'm dying but i want so we're not leaving for us each year and fewer witnesses saw the first day of the war and the horse which followed after here is the story. you would like any careless child i had plans that evening i wasn't afraid when they started shelling i only remember that something exploded and my bed was thrown into another corner of the

room. not only four year old canady was unaware of what was happening his father an experienced red army officer was also called flatfooted that night seventy years ago you're from. i was at this house with my mother and my father who was delayed to defend the breast fortress this was our window on the first floor my father was sure there could be no war this is what the party get saying he thought it was an earthquake he grabbed his accordion and ran outside my mom stopped him told me and this is war. the war for which the nazi military the very marked had come up with a name for long before blitzkrieg but as seach they'd planned would last just hours instead was to go on for weeks in a fierce battle with those who defended to the death the real scorches became the

size of the first major fighting between soviet forces and the vienna market there was no warning when the nazis invaded on the night of the twenty second of june one thousand nine hundred forty one the bombardment of the garrison by surprise that army officers were spread out and was on the wrong there i mean ition but even this didn't stop them to finding the fort in fear of battles until the last survivor stories of the heroic resistance quickly reached different fronts soldier me loss of received the news far away in the republic of call me in northwest russia it was a deep grief silent plain for all people trapped here everyone news of the german army was much stronger every day we receive reports of the enemy marched another hundred kilometers deeper into our homeland the nazis were in a hurry at the gateway to vast country they bore him to the breast fortress with devastating intensity up to sixty six missiles

a second archive footage from the time shows the fortress silhouetted in heavy smoke hundreds were killed in their sleep during the first minutes of the attack among them small children some survived the night on. to be buried alive later this is my second mother when the nazis rounded up refugees scattered in villages nearby this woman saved me the germans dug a mass grave into which they were about to throw women and children this woman pushed me and my mom under her skirt when the german slaughtered everyone around and left this woman took me out from under her skirt crossed me and said i just did what god told me to. after nine days of fierce fighting hitler's forces captured most of the fortress but their losses amounted to almost nine thousand there were reports that isolated defenders remained resisting the nazis as late as august when hitler and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that

a stone hitler picked up from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war. i'm often asked what was the biggest award for you the one most valued from that war the most precious award for me is that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived but could i understand it four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself that i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how one human being can do violence to another i've lived my life never doing any harm to anybody. in the church of our team. just to let you know in about ten minutes time tonight artie said with their world war two historian michael jones despite german claims

of the rules of engagement dr jones believes some of them were waging a genocidal war on the eastern front. after the war the germans claimed it was fighting a clean war and it was it was the units behind the army and it was the us it would be unpleasant stuff. that was not true many were infected by the race corporate. tools that you and the german army i participate trough to keep the filthy truth against the russians. or. the justification was we were fighting a brutal war of survival. but war with darker than any other war in the twentieth century indeed possibly in human history. on the seventieth anniversary the more of that coming up

a little bit later just like you know also coming up this hour in about twenty five minutes there's a wednesday night the twenty second of june we've got the latest sport as well just take a look at our web site are. more if you want to update yourself on on our top story that awful plane crash in korea we've got eyewitnesses there that we're talking to it r t dot com and a chance to have your say as well to pass on your condolences as well it's always good to hear from you r.t. dot com if you want to catch up more on our top story tonight rights now we're twenty two minutes past ten at night let's catch up with the business and country. thank you kevin how welcome to aunty's business bullets and there's a multi-billion dollar dog fight taking place at the paris air show this year russia is pinning its hopes on a range of defense aircraft and civil aviation on the new sukhoi superjet grigori brig from invest cafe sees great potential for russia's newest contestant in the

medieval market. well indeed we have seen over six hundred aircraft ordered from super jet and this apparent success is largely due to the to the reputation of mr pike at the time head of corp but out of those over six hundred aircrafts only two have actually been supplied so maybe in time before the modifications it can stand the competition from international majors such as qantas bombardier and brazil's embroiderer who also manufacture aircraft of similar specification. staying with the airshow now aeroflot russia's flagship airline has ordered eight triple seven passenger jets from boeing the one point two billion dollars deal is widely seen as a turn away from airbus which provides the majority of the carriers fleet analysts say the russian airline has obtained a fifty percent discount from bone saving up to a billion dollars meanwhile era flight is best advice for inconsistent terms in

both delivery and price. u.s. markets are trading conservatively whedon's day with all eyes on the federal reserve is holding its regular monetary policy meeting it's widely expected to keep rates unchanged of more interest we'll be watching and better nikkei has to say at the subsequent press conference about the state of the u.s. economy and the european markets traded cautiously as well during wednesday's session with investors curious as to what might be the next step in solving greece's debt problems banks in london suffered with barclays and standard chartered but down two percent and here in russia the markets closed slightly up after earlier losses and the uncertainty remained over the price of crude looking at some individual share moves on the my sex most energy may just bounce back from earlier losses with both gazprom and lukoil closing up over half a percent meanwhile banks were down as they came under pressure across europe. losing one percent russia's diamond. robert diamond giant has increased its

net profit by forty two percent in the first quarter of the year the four hundred thirty million dollar result was supported by stronger production as well as a thirty thirty four percent increase in precious stone prices. russian fertiliser producer kim has posted its first quarter net profit of one hundred sixty one million dollars up from nineteen million last year revenue rose seventy percent year on year driven by stronger global demand. money has been flowing steadily out of russia for the last nine months due to risk aversion among global investors a new state backed investment fund is part of the effort to reverse that trend and encourage foreign capital to take a longer view says nick poole caught up with the c.e.o. of the new fund. he's started by asking him how the fund would work. as the basic idea behind the plan to spur investment because actual budget meets their chairman of michigan on bass myself and some other key people who traveled around the

investors around the world and we asked them how would you invest much more into the russian economy and basically they said that they would like to invest more but they need to have a good partner because for many people that their first message of the russian if the have a partner so for investment is a basic ideas of will invest in projects but it can invest in projects only if at least the same amount of money to school invested by the leading international investor in the project the swap looks the broad a purpose of this fund what is it to achieve i think. many investors feel that as a result of a perception gap between the real risk situation in russia and how some investors perceive it and you know we can go into the history of it but everybody agrees that the resists perception gap that basically investors think it's more difficult and more risky to invest in russia as an actual it is so defunct it will be a partner in that they need the partner at the field look comfortable make an

investment and it's very similar for example if you invest in a rig in china you know would you invest on your own would you like the partner was a chinese fund so we're just making it easier to find a partner and we share the risk because russian state will be for investing as those investors. and that's all the business for this hour we'll be back with well in just under an hour's time stay with us for headlines next.

seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at the beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification i assemble everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. . culture is that so much of

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this is r t the international news broadcaster from moscow thank you for choosing is for your news update our top story a plane crash in northwest russia claims another life bringing the death toll to forty five day experts who investigated the evidence from the site to establish the cause of monday's disaster early reports suggest pilot error is to blame. and anti-terrorist operation in russia's north caucasus is underway with reports suggesting special forces have suffered losses of attack on a militant hideout there at least seven officers have reportedly been killed in gun fights with the thirty strong militant group. the greek government brings a vote of confidence as it struggles for support of its savage spending cuts they need to be passed to secure a new eve but thousands of angry greeks are protesting against the new measures

saying their voices of not being. under former soviet republics remember the victims of the war against fascism wednesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. some twenty seven million people died to bring about victory on the eastern front. it's ten thirty one pm here in moscow next artie's lorem it sits with british historian dr michael jones who's written exclusively about world war two he shares his knowledge about why hitler invaded the u.s.s.r. and why the soviet people managed to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the saved union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of resources deployed and also in casualties

dr michael jones's new book tells the story of the red army during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today let's start from the beginning of operation why did decide to invade the u.s.s.r. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism bolshevism and that was what he really put out to your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind hitler's book it.